About two weeks ago it was a really cold morning and I drove my car to uni. The whole way there (it's about a ten minute drive) the revs kept dropping, it would struggle to accelerate, the gears felt loose and the steering felt really light. Every time i'd pull up to a junction or traffic lights it would cut out altogether. So i'd have to restart my car to get it going again.
That same day about three hours later I drove it home from uni and it drove perfectly fine.
It didn't happen again. I put it down to being cold and just made more of an effort to let my car run for a minute or two before I drove so the engine could heat up.
The past few days its been doing it again, the revs will start dropping about halfway through the journey and it'll chug and splutter the rest of the way (even when i'm accelerating and in the right gear i can feel it struggling.) I'm a bit confused because it will only usually do it once and then it'll be fine to drive back home or i'll drive to uni and it's fine and it'll struggle when it gets halfway home but when I drive it again 20 minutes later it's perfectly fine.
I'm a bit scared to drive it because sometimes it's fine and sometimes it's not, it's not a consistent problem. I'm seeing the mechanic on Friday but is it safe to drive in the meantime? I drive it for work so I can't NOT have my car =/
My car:
Mini One
57 plate
1.4 engine
It's got 3/4 fuel and the right amount of oil